Poetry

This body of work is a selection of poems written during the span of forty years or so.

I keep
adding to it and making a few adjustments here and there as I go along...There is a dedication, favorite quotes
and six chapters with their musings. The chapters are: Life ~ Aloneness
~ Love ~ Natural Beauty ~ Pleasures ~ Freedom

what can one say, except ~ THANK YOU?

Freedom ~ in Love with Life and Light

This
creative process is

definitely dedicated to

~ Freedom ~

with Deep Gratitude

for Its Gifts of Light and

Life~Affirming Love

Favorite Quotes

‘The more total you are, the deeper
your relationship can be to any other human being. Once you find that inner core of yourself, you are free. And that leaves everyone around you free. You are not trying to make them into anything. You are not telling them what is best
for them. You know you do not know that. What you are doing is receiving them fully as the human beings they are. This is where love begins; it sees the mystery of the other and is just overwhelmed by it.’
Elizabeth

The Feminine Face of God:

The Unfolding of the Sacred in Women

Sherry Ruth Anderson and Patricia Hopkins

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“I leave you free
to be yourself: to think your thoughts, indulge your tastes, follow your inclinations, behave in ways that you decide are to your liking.” The moment you say that [to your beloved], you will observe one of two things: either your heart will resist
those words and you will be exposed for the clinger and exploiter that you are; so now is the time to examine your false belief that without this person you cannot live or cannot be happy. Or your heart will pronounce the words sincerely and in that
very instant all control, manipulation, exploitation, possessiveness, jealousy will drop. And you will notice something else: the person automatically ceases to be special and important to you. And he/she becomes important the way a sunset or a
symphony is lovely in itself, the way a tree is special in itself and not for the fruit or the shade that it can offer you. Your beloved will then belong not to you but to everyone or to no one like the sunrise and the tree.

In saying those words
you have set yourself free. You are now ready to love. For when you cling, what you offer the other is not love but a chain, by which both you and your beloved are bound. Love can only exist in freedom.